Hong Kongn.

Brit.

/ˌhɒŋ ˈkɒŋ/, U.S.

/ˈˌhɔŋ ˈˌkɔŋ/,

/ˈˌhɑŋ ˈˌkɑŋ/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Hong Kong.

Etymology: < Hong Kong (Chinese (Cantonese) Hēung góng), (Mandarin) Xiāng gǎng), the name of a city and special administrative region of China.Attested as a place name in English contexts from at least the first half of the 19th cent. The exact origin of the English form with rhyming syllables is unclear, as the vowels in the local Chinese (Cantonese) form of the name are markedly different from each other. The vowel of the first element was sometimes transliterated as ö in the 19th cent., which may have influenced the written form of the name, but this is difficult either to substantiate or disprove. The Chinese name originally denoted only the bay now known (in English) as Aberdeen Harbour. The original sense of the Chinese name is uncertain and disputed; the elements (in their Cantonese form) are hēung (adjective) fragrant, (noun) incense, and góng harbour. Hong Kong was a British Crown Colony from 1842–1997.

1. colloquial. to go to Hong Kong: to go far away; to go to hell. Chiefly with can, may, etc. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > be sent away or dismissed

to go to Hong Kong1849

go1858

to go hang1881

to take a walk1888

to get the gate1918

1849 Blackwood's Lady's Mag. Jan. 73 When a lady elopes down a ladder of ropes, she may go to Hong Kong for me.

1880 R. Jefferies Hodge & Masters I. ii. 40 The excitement of the day was a pleasurable sensation, and as for his master he might go to Kansas or Hong-Kong.

1921 A. Brazil Fortunate Term xii. 160 Opal Earnshaw may go to Hong-Kong if she likes. I don't care about her and her meannesses.

2001 C. Munn Anglo-China (2009) iii. vi. 257 The saying ‘You can go to Hong Kong for me’, became a common term of contempt in England.

2. Croquet. Any place at or beyond the boundaries of the court where a ball which has been croqueted ends up. Also: a shot which croquets a ball beyond the boundaries. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play

ball greenc1260

ball ground1440

ball court1671

spheristerion1764

Hong Kong1863

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > types of stroke

following stroke1837

rush1868

stop-stroke1868

cut1874

cut-over1874

jump-stroke1874

take-off1874

tice1874

passing croquet1877

split1896

split stroke1897

passing stroke1901

jump shot1909

Hong Kong1957

split shot1975

1863 M. Reid Croquet 10 A ball croque'd beyond the boundaries is sent to ‘Hong Kong’, or ‘up the country’.

1896 Badminton Mag. Aug. 224 A good golfing drive the whole length of the court, with both balls careering ‘off to Hong- Kong’, as the phrase ran then [sc. in the 1860s].

1957 V. Nabokov Pnin v. 131 Madam Shpolyanski insisted it was perfectly acceptable and said that when she was a child her English governess used to call it a Hong Kong.

Compounds

C1. attributive. Designating either of two strains of the influenza virus identified in Hong Kong: Asian flu, identified in 1957, and (more usually) a strain identified in 1968; also the influenza caused by these strains.

ΚΠ

1958 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 73 103/1 A monovalent vaccine containing the Hong Kong strain of the virus.

1968 Weekly Epidemiological Rec. 16 Aug. 411 (table) Influenza... A2/Hong Kong/1/68.

1970 New Scientist 8 Jan. 45/2 It made sad listening for those abed with Hongkong 'flu.

2006 New Scientist 7 Jan. (Bird Flu Suppl.) 2/2 The Asian pandemic..circulated until the H3N2 virus that caused the 1968 Hong Kong pandemic took over.

C2.

Hong Kong Chinese n. and adj. (a) n. a person of Chinese descent living in or coming from Hong Kong (cf. Hong Kongese n.); (b) adj. of or designating the Hong Kong Chinese.

ΚΠ

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 12 July 2/6 Mr. Gutzlaff calls it the ‘Secret Triad Society’, probably a translation of the name by which it is known to the Hong Kong Chinese.

1937 Life 4 Oct. 50/1 The nearest the war has come has been in Hong Kong Chinese riots against Hong Kong Japanese.

1989 Independent (Nexis) 15 Dec. 11 The Government was given a..warning last night that it risked Commons defeat if it attempted to allow 40,000 Hong Kong Chinese families to enter Britain before the colony is handed over to China in 1997.

2006 T. Man-kong Wong in D. Hardiman Healing Bodies, saving Souls iii. 97 As a Hong Kong Chinese who had received both medical and legal training in Britain, he was able to relate to and bring together a wide range of people.

Hong Kong dollar n. (originally) a silver coin introduced in 1862 by the British authorities in Hong Kong as a local standard coin and substitute for the Mexican dollar; (in later use) the principal monetary unit of Hong Kong, consisting of 100 cents; a coin or note of this value.

ΚΠ

1855 Despatch from Governor of Hong Kong 4 Sept. in Silver &c. (China) (Parl. Papers: Accts. & Papers XI) 45 If I should succeed in obtaining from the Chinese authorities a recognition of a Hong Kong dollar at its intrinsic value, I should..recommend the establishment of a mint in this colony.

1867 Reliquary July 64 Not one of them [sc. European coins] can shew a portrait to compete with this of Queen Victoria on her Hong Kong Dollar.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 659/1 The only legal tender is the Mexican dollar, and the British and Hong-Kong dollar, or other silver dollars of equivalent value duly authorized by the governor.

1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking viii. 101 When she finally got to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, she..withdrew fifty Hong Kong dollars.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 June 13 The Hong Kong dollar is officially pegged to the US dollar.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hong kong
释义	Hong Kongn. Brit. /ˌhɒŋ ˈkɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈˌhɔŋ ˈˌkɔŋ/, /ˈˌhɑŋ ˈˌkɑŋ/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Hong Kong. Etymology: < Hong Kong (Chinese (Cantonese) Hēung góng), (Mandarin) Xiāng gǎng), the name of a city and special administrative region of China.Attested as a place name in English contexts from at least the first half of the 19th cent. The exact origin of the English form with rhyming syllables is unclear, as the vowels in the local Chinese (Cantonese) form of the name are markedly different from each other. The vowel of the first element was sometimes transliterated as ö in the 19th cent., which may have influenced the written form of the name, but this is difficult either to substantiate or disprove. The Chinese name originally denoted only the bay now known (in English) as Aberdeen Harbour. The original sense of the Chinese name is uncertain and disputed; the elements (in their Cantonese form) are hēung (adjective) fragrant, (noun) incense, and góng harbour. Hong Kong was a British Crown Colony from 1842–1997. 1. colloquial. to go to Hong Kong: to go far away; to go to hell. Chiefly with can, may, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > be sent away or dismissed to go to Hong Kong1849 go1858 to go hang1881 to take a walk1888 to get the gate1918 1849 Blackwood's Lady's Mag. Jan. 73 When a lady elopes down a ladder of ropes, she may go to Hong Kong for me. 1880 R. Jefferies Hodge & Masters I. ii. 40 The excitement of the day was a pleasurable sensation, and as for his master he might go to Kansas or Hong-Kong. 1921 A. Brazil Fortunate Term xii. 160 Opal Earnshaw may go to Hong-Kong if she likes. I don't care about her and her meannesses. 2001 C. Munn Anglo-China (2009) iii. vi. 257 The saying ‘You can go to Hong Kong for me’, became a common term of contempt in England. 2. Croquet. Any place at or beyond the boundaries of the court where a ball which has been croqueted ends up. Also: a shot which croquets a ball beyond the boundaries. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play ball greenc1260 ball ground1440 ball court1671 spheristerion1764 Hong Kong1863 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > types of stroke following stroke1837 rush1868 stop-stroke1868 cut1874 cut-over1874 jump-stroke1874 take-off1874 tice1874 passing croquet1877 split1896 split stroke1897 passing stroke1901 jump shot1909 Hong Kong1957 split shot1975 1863 M. Reid Croquet 10 A ball croque'd beyond the boundaries is sent to ‘Hong Kong’, or ‘up the country’. 1896 Badminton Mag. Aug. 224 A good golfing drive the whole length of the court, with both balls careering ‘off to Hong- Kong’, as the phrase ran then [sc. in the 1860s]. 1957 V. Nabokov Pnin v. 131 Madam Shpolyanski insisted it was perfectly acceptable and said that when she was a child her English governess used to call it a Hong Kong. Compounds C1. attributive. Designating either of two strains of the influenza virus identified in Hong Kong: Asian flu, identified in 1957, and (more usually) a strain identified in 1968; also the influenza caused by these strains. ΚΠ 1958 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 73 103/1 A monovalent vaccine containing the Hong Kong strain of the virus. 1968 Weekly Epidemiological Rec. 16 Aug. 411 (table) Influenza... A2/Hong Kong/1/68. 1970 New Scientist 8 Jan. 45/2 It made sad listening for those abed with Hongkong 'flu. 2006 New Scientist 7 Jan. (Bird Flu Suppl.) 2/2 The Asian pandemic..circulated until the H3N2 virus that caused the 1968 Hong Kong pandemic took over. C2. Hong Kong Chinese n. and adj. (a) n. a person of Chinese descent living in or coming from Hong Kong (cf. Hong Kongese n.); (b) adj. of or designating the Hong Kong Chinese. ΚΠ 1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 12 July 2/6 Mr. Gutzlaff calls it the ‘Secret Triad Society’, probably a translation of the name by which it is known to the Hong Kong Chinese. 1937 Life 4 Oct. 50/1 The nearest the war has come has been in Hong Kong Chinese riots against Hong Kong Japanese. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 15 Dec. 11 The Government was given a..warning last night that it risked Commons defeat if it attempted to allow 40,000 Hong Kong Chinese families to enter Britain before the colony is handed over to China in 1997. 2006 T. Man-kong Wong in D. Hardiman Healing Bodies, saving Souls iii. 97 As a Hong Kong Chinese who had received both medical and legal training in Britain, he was able to relate to and bring together a wide range of people. Hong Kong dollar n. (originally) a silver coin introduced in 1862 by the British authorities in Hong Kong as a local standard coin and substitute for the Mexican dollar; (in later use) the principal monetary unit of Hong Kong, consisting of 100 cents; a coin or note of this value. ΚΠ 1855 Despatch from Governor of Hong Kong 4 Sept. in Silver &c. (China) (Parl. Papers: Accts. & Papers XI) 45 If I should succeed in obtaining from the Chinese authorities a recognition of a Hong Kong dollar at its intrinsic value, I should..recommend the establishment of a mint in this colony. 1867 Reliquary July 64 Not one of them [sc. European coins] can shew a portrait to compete with this of Queen Victoria on her Hong Kong Dollar. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 659/1 The only legal tender is the Mexican dollar, and the British and Hong-Kong dollar, or other silver dollars of equivalent value duly authorized by the governor. 1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking viii. 101 When she finally got to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, she..withdrew fifty Hong Kong dollars. 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 June 13 The Hong Kong dollar is officially pegged to the US dollar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849
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